A mouse elder warns his colony about cats, and the warning becomes prophecy the moment a young mouse learns it the hard way. The prank that seemed harmless becomes the mistake that nearly costs everything. What hits is how fast safety shatters, how a single bad decision turns a child's game into survival, how the thing you were warned about arrives exactly when you stopped believing in the warning.
An old mouse calls the young mice together and lectures them on the danger that cats pose. Afterward, one of the youngsters goes off to cause mischief inside a private home, where he ends up falling into a bowl of water. His friends manage to pull him out, but a cat then attacks him, and he gets away only by crawling. The film is a simple tale of mice and a cat.